Year: 2024
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: HARMONI is the first light visible and near-IR integral field spectrograph for the ELT. It covers a large spectral range from 450 nm to 2450 nm with resolving powers from 3500 to 18000 and spatial sampling from 60 mas to 4 mas. It can operate in two Adaptive Optics modes - SCAO (including a High Contrast capability) and LTAO - or with NOAO. The project is preparing for Final Design Reviews. HARMONI is a work-horse instrument that provides efficient, spatially resolved spectroscopy of extended objects or crowded fields of view. The gigantic leap in sensitivity and spatial resolution that HARMONI at the ELT will enable promises to transform the landscape in observational astrophysics in the coming decade. The project has undergone some key changes to the leadership and management structure over the last two years. We present the salient elements of the project restructuring, and modifications to the technical specifications. The instrument design is very mature in the lead up to the final design review. In this paper, we provide an overview of the instrument's capabilities, details of recent technical changes during the red flag period, and an update of sensitivities.
DOI: 10.1117/12.3018520
Authors: Niranjan A. Thatte, Dave Melotte, Benoît Neichel, David Le Mignant, Philip Rees, Fraser Clarke, Vanessa Ferraro-Wood, Oscar Gonzalez, Maia Jones, Alonso Álvarez Urueña, Heribert Vilaseca, Santiago Arribas Mocoroa, José Antonio Caballero, Gonzalo José Carracedo Carballal, Alberto Estrada Piqueras, Irene Ferro, Miriam García García, Isabella Lamperti, Miguel Pereira Santaella, Michele Perna, Javier Piqueras Lopez, Nicolas Bouché, Didier Boudon, Eric Daguisé, Nicola Domenis, Jérémy Fensch, Olivier Olivier Flasseur, Rémi Giroud, Matthieu Guibert, Aurélien Jarno, Alexandre Jeanneau, Jens-Kristian Krogager, Maud Langlois, Florence Laurent, Magali Loupias, Jean-Emmanuel Migniau, Dieu Nguyen, Laure Piqueras, Alban Remillieux, Johan Richard, Arlette Pecontal, Lisa Bardou, David Barr, Sylvain Cetre, Sofia Dimoudi, Cornelis M. Dubbeldam, Andrew Dunn, Dimitri Gadotti, Joss Guy, David King, Anna McLeod, Simon Morris, Tim Morris, Kieran S. O'Brien, Emily Ronson, Russell Smith, Lazar Staykov, Mark Swinbank, Matteo Accardo, Domingo Alvarez Mendez, Pablo Alberto Fuerte Rodriguez, Elizabeth George, Derek Ives, Leander Mehrgan, Eric Mueller, Javier Reyes-Moreno, Ralf Conzelmann, Pablo Gutierrez Cheetham, Ángel Alonso-Sánchez, Giuseppina Battaglia, Miguel Cagigas, Julio A. Castro-Almazán, Haresh Chulani, Graciela Delgado-García, Patricia Fernandez Izquierdo, Donaji Esparza-Arredondo, Begoña García-Lorenzo, Alberto Hernández-González, Elvio Hernández Suárez, Javier Licandro, Enrique Joven, Roberto López López, Alejandro Antonio Lujan Gonzalez, Yolanda Martín, Ignacio Martín-Navarro, Evencio Mediavilla, Saúl Menéndez Mendoza, Luz Maria Montoya Martínez, José Peñate Castro, Felipe Murgas, Enric Pallé, Álvaro Pérez, José Luis Rasilla Piñeiro, Rafael Rebolo-López, Horacio Rodríguez, Luis Fernando Rodríguez Ramos, Victor Sánchez Béjar, Tariq Shahbaz, Afrodisio Vega-Moreno, Teodora Viera, Mickaël Bonnefoy, Tony Bret, Alexis Carlotti, Jean-Jacques Correia, Stéphane Curaba, Alain Delboulbé, Sylvain Guieu, Adrien Hours, Zoltan Hubert, Laurent Jocou, Yves Magnard, Laurence Michaud, Thibaut Moulin, Fabrice Pancher, Patrick Rabou, Sylvain Rochat, Eric Stadler, Thierry Contini, Marie Larrieu, Sébastien Mamessier, Olivier Boebion, Yan Fanteï-Caujolle, Daniel Lecron, Philippe Amram, Patrick Blanchard, William Bon, Anne Bonnefoi, Alexandre Bozier, William Ceria, Zalpha Challita, Yannick Y. Charles, Élodie Choquet, Anne Costille, Audrey Delsanti, Kjetil Dohlen, Franck Ducret, Kacem El Hadi, Benjamin Foulon, Jean Luc Gimenez, Olivier Groussin, Marc Jaquet, Edgard Renault, Paul Rouquette, Patrice Sanchez, Arthur Vigan, Annie Zavagno, Romain Fétick, Thierry Fusco, Cedric Héritier, Jean-François Sauvage, Nicolas Védrenne, Demet Aksoy, Martin Caldwell, Ann Fitzpatrick, Carl Geddert, Peter Hiscock, Emma Johnson, Murali Nalagatla, Louise Saraff, Joe Shreeves, Matthew Tildesley, Mark Wells, Anastasios Aretos, Lee Barrett, Martin Black, Charlotte Bond, Saskia Brierley, Ian Bryson, Amelia Calderhead, Kenny Campbell, James Carruthers, Lee Chapman, William Cochrane, Rory Gillespie, Joel Harman, Douglas Harvey, Eamonn Harvey, Bethany Johnson, Tom Louth, Mike MacIntosh, Anna MacIver, Chris Miller, David Montgomery, Meenu Murali, John Murray, Norman O'Malley, Ruben Sanchez-Janssen, Noah Schwartz, Patrick Smith, Jonathan Strachan, Stephen Todd, Dawn Wasley, Sandi Wilson, Junyi Zhou, Eric Bell, Oleg Gnedin, Kayhan Gultekin, Mario Mateo, Michael Meyer, Jayne Birkby, Liam Boland, Michele Cappellari, Edgar Castillo-Domínguez, David Gooding, Kearn Grisdale, Andrea Hidalgo, James Kariuki, Ian Lewis, Kieran McCall, R. Elliot Meyer, Eduard Muslimov, Adam Lowe, Zeynep Ozer, Sophie Paszynska, Dimitra Rigopoulou, Matthias Tecza, Alec York
Institutions: University of Oxford, Royal Observatory, UK Astronomy Technology Centre, Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille, Universidad de Guadalajara, Centro de Astrobiología, Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon, Durham University, European Southern Observatory, European Southern Observatory, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Institut de Planétologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble, Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie, Université Paris-Saclay, Office National d'Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales, Département Optique et Techniques Associées
Language: English
Subfield: Instrumentation
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4400724989